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【Speech of Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong on Chinese National Day Reception】

2015-10-01 03:33

 

Your excellency Adviser to Prime minister Shaikh Salman Khalifa,

Your excellency Royal Court Special Envoy Sameer Ebrahim Bin Rajad,

Your excellency First Vice President of Council of Representatives Ali Abdullah Al-Aradi,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good evening, At the outset, let me express our deep appreciation to all of you for joining us in celebrating the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Over the 66 years, China has gone through a landscape change. China not only succeed in providing basic needs for its people, but also became the world's second largest economy. The average life expectancy is up from 35 to 74 years.

China not only ended the scourge of war and poverty, but also found a suitable path to its development, This is the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

China not only actively integrated itself with the world, but also made outstanding contribution to world peace and prosperity. China has became the largest contributor of peacekeeping troops among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, over 3000 Chinese peacekeepers are discharging their duties all over the world everyday. Up to now, China deployed a total of 59 vessels to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Somali coast in 20 missions to ensure safety of close to 6000 ships. Recently, at the 70th session of UN General Assembly, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will make a series of contributions to safeguarding the world peace and promoting common development.

While we are proud of past achievements, we are soberly aware of the fact that China is still a developing county with a large population. Our per capita GDP is only two thirds that of the global average, ranking around 80th in the world. That is why development remains China's top priority.

China has proposed the two centenary goals, i.e. to double the 2010 GDP and per capita income of the Chinese and complete the building of a moderately prosperous society by 2020 and to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advance and harmonious modern socialist country and realize the great renewal of the Chinese nation by the middle of the century.

To succeed in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, China must comprehensively deepen reform, advance law-based governance, and apply strict party discipline. That is what our government proposed the four-pronged strategy is all about.

In regard to China's foreign policy orientation, China will keep to the path of peaceful development. Not long ago, at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, President Xi announced that the size of China's military will be cut by 300,000. China is ready to work with others to build a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation at its core. China's "the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road" initiative, establishment of the Silk Road Fund and the proposal to set up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are all aimed at promoting the common development of all countries.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Over the 66 years, especially since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Bahrain, the friendship and partnership between our two countries have been getting better and better. The bilateral trade volume is up from 9 million to 2 billion US dollars. The bilateral personnel exchange is up from dozens to 10 thousand. And the Confucius Institute has been set up in Bahrain University. Meanwhile, the Dragon city will open around the end of this year.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Looking into the future, I am confident that as our political mutual trust deepens and practical cooperation in various fields strengthens, we will witness new historic moment of China-Bahrain relations.

To conclude, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to all of you for your continuous interest in and strong support for China's development and China-Bahrain friendship.

Wish the friendly Kingdom of Bahrain prosperity.

Wish the China-Bahrain's friendship lasts forever.

Thank you!

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